The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-17
The Board of Trade

In Sundays issue the Florida Herald
says:
1.-THE Palatka Board of Trade. next to
the Jacksonville body, seems to be the
most useful-business institution in the
State. Jacksonville is vitality indebted
to her admirable board
The jacksonville Board is composed of
the best business men of the metropolis,
has long been in successful operation and
has done a wonderful amount of practi-
cal good for that city. Its leading spirits
are men of energy, tact and ability: it
has thoroughly emancipated itself from
the control of personal interests and on
financial and public questions it carries
thefull Endorsement of the community for
which it labors, and speaks bya uthority.
That our young Board should have done
so much in so short time only proves
that its increasing usefulness will stead
lily grow along the path it has marked
out for itself. and we hope it will, in
time. be an instrument for good as pow
erful as our sister city has found her
Board to be. We could not keep be-
fore our eyes better or more useful
example.
But the Palatka Board differs in one
respect entirely from its mentor. 1t pro-
poses to work for all the section as well
as for itself. 1t has invited its neighbor-
ing towns To enter its membership with
full powers and privileges, and ITS duties
will have a much wider range than our
own corporate limits. On all matters
pertaining to the general interest it can
increase its usefulness as well as its
strength, if the people from Daytona and
the whole sea coast to Lake Worth will
Join with the interior towns and those of
the Gulf, in a common bond for the mu-
tual advancement of common interests
and encouragement of that common
growth which will so powerfully conduce
to a common prosperity. Is not Daytona
and Tampa equally interested in
the extension of quick and cheap
transportation, the increase of trade.
the lowering of freights and the
encouragement of immigration and
travel? Are not Titusville and Rock
ledge bound to Palatka by common
interest in every visitor who passes
south and every dollar invested in this
section? Do not Ocala and Orlando and
Seville and Welaka stand in the same
category? The Palatka Board of Trade
proposes to act rs the central body from
which all these influences shall emanate,
and, when the bond is perfected, if it be
thought hest we can OrIraniz,a an Exac-
utive Committee which shall act as the
mouthpiece for the whole and in which
all can claim representation. In this our
Board has marked out a plan for itself
The Committee ON Transportation of
the Palatka Board lately formulated
its hopes of good from the Interstate
Commerce law and presented these to the
Commission. This was considered so
important that the matter was taken by
the Associated Press and given to all
the principal papers in the country.
Even considered as an advertisement of
our advantages, this was worth hundreds
of dollars to our section. At its next
meeting the Board will probably send ON
an agent to present the peculiar circum-
stances now retarding our progress and
to propose a remedy for some of the bur-
dens under which our producers now la
Dor in competing for our proper place in
the markets of the country. Are we
not all interested in these questions:
The Times Union says in reference to
the positions assumed by the Board ON